Horseshoe.



No. 740,623. I PATENTED 0016,1903 G. -'W.'& w. H. BRADLEY.

, HORSBSHOE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1. 1900'.-

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UNITED STATES Patented October e, 19.03.

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE w. BRADLEY AND WILLIAM H. BRADLEY, or PHILADELPHIA,

PENNSYLVANIA; sAID GEORGE w.- BRADLEY ASSIGNOR TO SAID' W'ILLIAM BRADLEY.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 740,62 3, dated October 6-, 1903.

Application filed June 1, 1900. Serial No. 18,786. (No modeL) To ctZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE W. BRADLEY and WILLIAM H. BRADLEY, citizens of the United States, and residents of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have jointly invented a new and useful Improvement in Horseshoes, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to shoes for horses, and has for its object the more secure support of the hoof and a better hold upon pavements,with an avoidance of clogging of earth upon the shoes and a better durability of use. To attain these ends, the invention may be concisely stated to consist in a shoe having lengthwise and transverse ridges formed integrally therewith, forming a series of cruciform calks of graduated length, higher at the front than at the rear, with such beveled sides and filleting of theangles as to leave no interstices in which dirt can be lodged.

The construction of our invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows an inverted plan of a shoe Fig. 2 shows a side view thereof. Fig. 3 shows a section in the plane indicated by the dotted line X X in Fig. 1, and Fig. at shows a section in the plane indicated by the dotted line Y Y in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, a represents the plate of the shoe, having apertures b,through which nails may be driven to attach it to the hoof. The plate a is thicker and broader at the front than'at the rear ends and tapers gradually in thickness and in width from the front toward the rear ends. I

c c are ridges formed integrally with the plate a and with transverse ridges d (1, forming cruciform calks. -These calks are of graduated length, being longer at the front than at the rear of the shoe, so that when the calks rest upon a horizontalplane the upper surface of the shoe is inclined downwardly from the front to the rear. The ridges c c at their intersection with the ridges d d are strongly filleted and also at their junctions with the plate a, and the ends of the ridges d! cl are inclined inwardly, so as not to endanger the striking of the opposite foot of the horse. The series of cruciform calks of graduated length from the front to the rear afford a firm support for the hoof and give a better hold on the pavement than the toes and calks on the front and rear of horseshoes as usually constructed, and the tapering in thickness and breadth of the shoe from the front to the rear places the greater weight of the shoe at the front, so that the impingement of the shoe is more effective upon the pavement and the elasticity of the shoe is made to correspond with the elasticity of the hoof to which it is applied.)

Having described our invention, what we claim is An integrally-formed horseshoe consisting of a plate of greater width and thickness at the front than at the rear ends having a fiat plane upper surface and having formed on GEO. w. BRADLEY. WM. I-I. BRADLEY.

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S. LLOY WIEGAND, 0. R. MORGAN. 

